25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - rhan 2
This is a really difficult, wicked issue to cope with. We want to make it easier for people to plant trees where trees should be. We don't want to put planning consents in place for that. If you want to plant six trees in your garden, I don't want you to have…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2023-24 - rhan 2
So, although there's a reduction in the planned revenue, it's still more than was in there, so it's a reduction in the planned increase, if I can put it that way. So, it's not a reduction, just to be really clear, in the original level. It should still allow…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
—so we have a really good regional strategy in Wales, we've worked on it for ages, we have a really good relationship with our local authorities and our regions. We have a very well-developed programme with our city regions about where the investment is…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
So, the answer is: we can't, at all. But, fortunately, we have a very good relationship with most of our local authorities and so, actually, they've all been anxious to speak to us about it. There's no getting away from this: we're very cross about it, it's a…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
I believed it, anyway. [Laughter.] So, it's a great project. We've been able to talk to them, as well, actually, about some of the lovely-to-have things that we'd like to see alongside our solar farms, so the panels there are raised off the ground by some…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
You cut a lovely ribbon, Lee, and, magically, the electricity flows once the ribbon has been removed. [Laughter.]
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
That's very much where Jon was coming from just now, so this is about us attempting to get the public sector into a better position. So, there are a number of things that are standout projects we can direct the committee to, and if you get the chance to go…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
Oh, I don't know. [Laughter.]
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
The short answer to that is, 'yes, it is'. So, we've got the—. Ynni Cymru funding is ring-fenced inside the clean energy BEL. It's £1 million for 2022-23, £2 million for 2023-24, £3 million for 2024-25. So, easy for hard-working Ministers to remember—nice…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
And the other thing is, Huw, and I'll ask Jon to say a little bit more about this—this is a two-hour answer all by itself, in truth, but—we have a whole series of things in the carbon plans and in the net-zero plan where we do not have the data, really, that…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
So, we've met the first carbon budget. We're on track to meet the second carbon budget. The third carbon budget is very, very challenging. That's where we're at. So, we've taken some, I don't know what word to use—well, the 'right': we've taken the right…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
Dean, do you want to come in about the specifics?
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
So, that's the same answer, really. So, what we're doing is we're looking to put a range of measures in place that incentivise, if you like, the adaptation programme. So, you don't need very much budget to start the incentivisation process. What we will need…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
No, no—that's fine, Joyce. So, we're still in conversation with the four nations. The ETS scheme is a four-nation scheme. It has to be agreed by the authority, as it's called, which is the four nations acting together. We've been in a lot of conversations…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
No, no, absolutely—absolutely the case, and I'll hand over to Jon to give you the nitty-gritty in a minute, Huw. But, absolutely, it is the case that we have to have the UK on board with a number of these things, or we will simply not get to it. So, even if…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
No, clearly not. We constantly complain, and 'complain' is the word about the HS2 situation, which is clearly nonsensical. Ministers who have attempted to publicly defend it have been getting themselves into a right pickle because it is not defensible…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
We've been talking to local authorities about seeing this much more holistically. So, this is very much part of the placemaking programme that we have with them. So, rather than saying, 'It's going to cost our road maintenance budget X', we're saying, 'Well…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
Can I just add one last thing to that, as well?
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
So, I suppose, for temperate countries, the extremes are a problem, but Canada, for example, has massive problems with flooding and different soil conditions that they didn't have to cope with before. So, it's not unique to us.
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
This is happening all over the world, basically, and what's happening is that lots of countries’ infrastructure can't cope with the new weather conditions—higher rain fall, more flooding, colder or higher temperatures. More wind is a really common one for a…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
Yes, and just to add to that, on the flooding, of course, there's a separate programme that includes some infrastructure work for flooding itself. So, we do have a programme that looks at that. But, it's a fact that our climate is changing, and I think it's…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
Just to add to that though, Jenny, obviously, in some parts of the country, having just discussed my hilly constituency, it is much more difficult, and so, actually, there are some successful schemes with Sustrans to lend out electric bikes, for example, or…
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
The same for NRW.
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
No, but I think if you—. Well, we hope that they will tell you as well that it's significantly improved, and we expect a really serious improvement in both organisations next year as we recalibrate it.
25 Ionawr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 (vi) a (ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o eitemau 4 a 7 o gyfarfod heddiw.
On that point, actually, Cadeirydd, just to blow Lee's trumpet a little bit here, we've been fundamentally recalibrating the relationship between the Government and this portfolio and TfW, and, actually, NRW as well, since we came into post. So, we've had a…
